Lead Platform Engineer, TD Securities

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$126,800 - $164,100 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

Department Overview

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.

With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions.

We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Hands-on Sr. Platform Engineer that will work on innovative and transformational initiatives at TD Securities -- the implementation of the next generation Trading Risk Warehouse platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design and development of a scalable, resilient and high performing PnL (Profit and Loss) reporting platform that will be used by Risk Analysts, Front Office Traders, and Senior Executives.

This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies to solve problems of scale and speed. As a lead platform engineer, you will be working on leading platform engineering team to pinpoint the system bottleneck, providing tangible solutions quickly to resolve platform issues, automating platform maintenance tasks as well as demonstrating a strong technical leadership to ensure the quality of deliverables in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a high performing platform and ensure the platform meets the need of business, providing stability, reliability, security and scalability.

• Manage underlying infrastructure, including hardware, software and storage resources.

• Manage multiple environments (Prod/Pre-Prod/Lower environments) and ensure the integration and stability of environments.

• Streamline code promotion process and providing ways to improve developer productivity.

• Ensure the stability of platform and TRW ecosystem.

• Find ways to optimize platform and address system bottlenecks.

• Ability to analyze system issues and provide a solution to resolve the issue permanently.

• Promote the best practices and follow the continuous integration and delivery.

• Drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes and workflows.

• Explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation.

• Work closely with development and production operation teams to support their needs, troubleshoot issues and enhance the platform.

Desired Skillsets:

• Proficient in programming skills for automation: Unix shell scripting, python or other programming language

• Networking and Linux administration

• SQL

• DevOps CICD/ tools/GIT/Jenkins

• Monitoring and logging tools

• Hadoop Cluster/spark/hive system administration.

• Manage large scale Web and ETL platform

• Cloud platform experience is a plus

• Great communication and problem-solving skills.

• People management skills.

Technical Skills

• 8+ years in managing and supporting large scale and mission critical platform.

• Experience in large scale platform migration initiative.

• Strong experience with managing Hadoop platform including HDFS, Spark and Hive

• 8+ years' experience in Linux system administration.

• Experience in managing web and service/API platform.

• Experience working with messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)

• Experience with RDBMS, demonstrable fluency in SQL and any non-relational DB such as Cassandra (is preferred).

• 6+ years of experience managing Git, CI/CD toolset (Maven), Jenkins, working within an Agile environment

• Experience in implementing and managing system monitoring tools.

• Experience developing and managing highly scalable and low latency systems.

• A passion for bringing best products to the customer, simpl